IBM iSeries/AS400 Operations Command Guide

1 Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 1 of 30 IBM iSeries/AS400 Operations Command Guide Complements of Essential Business Resources 185 Paul Revere Road Needham, MA 02494 (781) 910-2755 Specializing in IBM Hardware, Software & Services Contact: Joe Maloney (781) 910-2755 Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 2 of 30 Table of Contents Section Command Description Page 1. Work with User Profiles Add a User Profile Change a User Profile Copy a User profile 3 5 7 9 2. Work with Writers Manage Printers 11 3. Work with Output Queues Manage Reports to be Printed 13 4. Work with System Status View System Activity and Status 16 5. Work with Disk Status View Disk Status 18 6.

2 Work with Active Jobs View Active Jobs 20 7. Perform a System Save Option 21 from the Save Menu 22 8. Power Down System 26 Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 3 of 30 Work with User Profiles/ WRKURSPRF : Add, Change, Delete User Profiles To use this Command you must sign on as the Security Officer/ QSECOFR . On the Command line type wrkusrprf *all and press the ENTER key. Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 4 of 30 After pressing ENTER, the screen below is displayed. This screen provides the following options for working with User Profiles: 1. = Create a User Profile - See Page 5 2. = Change a User Profile - See Page 7 3. = Copy a User Profile - See Page 9 4. = Delete a User Profile NOT RECCOMENDED 5.

3 = Display a User Profile 12. = Work with Objects by Owner Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 5 of 30 To Add a New User, type a 1 in top Option Input Line and the User s Name in the User Profile Input Line and press the ENTER Key. Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 6 of 30 Add a New User Profile After pressing ENTER, the screen below is displayed. The screen displays the required (minimum) parameters to create a new User Profile. If additional parameters are required, press F10 . Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 7 of 30 Change a User Profile To CHANGE a User Profile, type a 2 in the Option Entry Field next to the User Profile you wish to maintain and press ENTER.

4 Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 8 of 30 Change a User Profile (continued) After pressing ENTER, the screen below is displayed. The screen displays the minimum parameters. If additional parameters are required, press F10 . Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 9 of 30 Copy a User Profile To COPY a User Profile, type a 3 in the Option Entry Field next to the User Profile you wish to maintain and press ENTER. Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 10 of 30 Copy a User Profile (continued) After pressing ENTER, the screen below is displayed. The COPY function duplicates all the User Profile Parameters from the profile selected to the new profile that will be created with the exception of the USER PROFILE Name.

5 The User Profile Name is the only required. Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 11 of 30 Work with Writers/WRKWTR - Manage Printers On the Command line type wrkwtr and press the ENTER key. Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 12 of 30 Work with Writers/WRKWTR - Printers (continued) After pressing ENTER, the screen below is displayed. Each Printer attached to the system is listed with its status. The printer control options are listed across the top of the display. To change a printer s status enter the desired function option number in the Option/ Opt entry field and press ENTER. Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 13 of 30 Work with Output Queues/WRKOUTQ - Manage Reports to be Printed On the Command line type wrkusrprf *all and press the ENTER key Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 14 of 30 Work with Output Queues/WRKOUTQ - Manage Reports to be Printed (continued) After pressing ENTER, the screen below is displayed.

6 Each Output Queue/ Outq configured on the system is listed with its status and the name of the Writer ( Printer) it is attached. The Outq s control options are listed across the top of the display. To display the Files ( Reports) on the Queue to be printed, type an Option 5 in the Option/ Opt entry field and press ENTER. Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 15 of 30 Work with Output Queues/WRKOUTQ - Manage Reports to be Printed (continued) After pressing ENTER, the screen below is displayed. All reports in the Queue are listed with their associated status. The OUTQ control options are listed across the top of the display. To change a report s status enter the desired function option number in the Option/ Opt entry field and press ENTER Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 16 of 30 Work with System Status/WRKSYSSTS - View System Activity and Status On the Command line type wrksyssts and press the ENTER key to prompt the Command .

7 Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 17 of 30 Work with System Status/WRKSYSSTS - View System Activity and Status (continued) After pressing ENTER, the screen below is displayed. The Work with System Status display shows a group of statistics that depicts the current status of the system. It displays the number of jobs currently in the system, the total capacity of the system auxiliary storage pool (ASP), the percentage of the system ASP storage currently in use, the amount of temporary storage currently in use, the maximum amount of temporary storage space required since the last initial program load (IPL), the percentage of machine addresses used, and statistical and reference information related to each storage pool that currently has main storage allocated to it.

8 The statistical information is gathered during an identified time interval (shown as the elapsed time); the data can either be updated by extending the measurement time interval, or it can be reset and a new time interval can be started to gather a new set of data. Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 18 of 30 Work with Disk Status/WRKDSKSTS - View Disk Status On the Command line type wrkdsksts and press the ENTER key Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 19 of 30 Work with Disk Status/WRKDSKSTS - View Disk Status (continued) After pressing ENTER, the screen below is displayed. The Work with Disk Status display shows performance and status information about the disk units on the system.

9 It displays the number of units currently on the system, the type of each disk unit, the size of disk space, whether the disk is currently on the system, the percentage of disk space used, the I/O requests per second, the average size of the I/O requests, the average number of read and write requests, the average amount of data read and written, and the percentage of time the disk is being used. When F11=Display storage use is pressed, additional information is displayed such as the auxiliary storage pool (ASP), status, and protected and unprotected storage information. Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 20 of 30 Work with Active Jobs/WRKACTJOB - View Active Jobs To view active jobs, Type the wrkactjob Command on the Command line and press ENTER.

10 Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 21 of 30 Work with Active Jobs/WRKACTJOB - View Active Jobs (continued) The screen below will be displayed. Scroll Down and find subsystem name QINTER . All interactive jobs (signed-on users) will be listed below QINTER. You will see the Current User Names for each job. Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 22 of 30 To Perform a System Save - Option 21 from the SAVE Menu To access the SAVE System Menu enter go save on the Command line and press enter. Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 23 of 30 The SAVE Menu below is displayed. Press PAGE DOWN Key to display more menu options. (go to next page) Copyright 2013 Essential Business Resources The Essential iSeries (AS400) Operations Command Guide Page 24 of 30 The screen below is displayed.